The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

flirtation ... is a graceful salute to sex, a small impermanent spark between one human being and another, between a man and a woman not in need of fire.

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.

To be successful in the world of art you must, of course, have talent, although very small talents have gone very far in this age. Just as the microphone gave volume to voices that had none, so does the science of press-agentry magnify limited skills into highly saleable properties.

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.